Bob, about Lomatium cous:  

 

If someone had shown me this name, and I was in a shoot-from-the-hip mood, I
might have incorrectly jumped to the conclusion that the cous was the
masculine form of the Latin geographic term for the island Cos (as in
Cyclamen coum). 

 

But then I would have noticed the seeming discrepancy between the gender of
the genus and the seeming gender of the species name. But since cous in this
case is based on a person's name, and in the combination Lomatium cous is
used as a noun in apposition and not an adjectival (and thus declined)
species name, there is no lack of agreement. 

 

But back to Cyclamen coum: it "should" be pronounced as a two syllable word,
co-um, even though cous and coum sound like kissing cousins. 

 

Jim McKenney

 

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